JOHN CAPPS ADDRESS Department of Philosophy E-MAIL [email protected] Rochester Institute of Technology WEB johncapps.net Rochester, NY 14623 USA EMPLOYMENT 2015- Professor 2011-2014 Chair, Department of Philosophy 2006-2015 Associate Professor 2008-2010 Senior Associate Dean, College of Liberal Arts 2007-2008 Associate Dean, College of Liberal Arts 2000-2006 Assistant Professor, Rochester Institute of Technolgy 1998-2000 Assistant Professor, University of North Florida 1998-2000 Visiting Assistant Professor, College of Charleston AREAS AOS Epistemology, American Philosophy AOC Logic, History of Philosophy (especially 20th century Anglo-American) EDUCATION 1997 Northwestern University: Ph.D in Philosophy Dissertation: Context and Inquiry: Justification in Naturalized Epistemology Committee: Thomas Ryckman, Arthur Fine, Michael Williams 1994 Northwestern University: MA in Philosophy 1991 St. John’s College, Annapolis: BA PUBLICATIONS Articles and Book Chapters 1. Forthcoming. What we talk about when we talk about truth: Dewey, Wittgenstein, and the pragmatic test. International Journal of Philosophical Studies. John Capps | 1 2. Forthcoming 2021. The less said the better: Dewey, Neurath, and mid- century theories of truth. Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie. 3. 2020. Pragmatic accounts of belief and truth: A response to Aaron Zimmerman’s Belief: a Pragmatic Picture. William James Studies. 16: 39-56. 4. 2020. Democracy, truth, and understanding: an epistemic argument for democracy. In M.C. Navin and R. Nunan (Eds.), Democracy, Populism, and Truth. New York: Springer. 5. 2020. A common-sense pragmatic theory of truth. Philosophia. 48: 463-481. DOI: 10.1007/s11406-019-00099-z 6. 2020. Truth and the Goldilocks principle. Think. 19: 65-74. DOI: 10.1017/ S1477175620000068 7. 2020. William James and the will to alieve. Contemporary Pragmatism. 17: 1-20. 8. 2019. Playing fair by William James. Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 55(1): 65-70. 9. 2019. The pragmatic theory of truth. Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/truth-pragmatic/ 10. 2018. Even worse than it seems: Transformative experience and the selection problem. Journal of Philosophical Research 43: 113-124. 11. 2018. Did Dewey have a theory of truth? Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 54(1): 39-63 12. 2018. The case for discussion-intensive pedagogy. APA Newsletter on Teaching Philosophy 17(2): 5-11. Lenssen Prize Honorable Mention, American Association of Philosophy Teachers. 13. 2018. The Pragmatic origins of ethical expressivism: Stevenson, Dewey, and the International Encyclopedia of Unified Science. In S. Marchetti and M. Baghramian (Eds.), Pragmatism and the European Traditions: Encounters with Analytic Philosophy and Phenomenology Before the Great Divide. New York: Routledge. 14. 2018. From global expressivism to global pragmatism. Metaphilosophy 49: 71-89. 15. 2017. A pragmatic argument for a pragmatic theory of truth. Contemporary Pragmatism 14: 135-156. 16. 2014. Radical pragmatism: An operator’s guide. European Journal of Pragmatism and American Philosophy 6: 125-144. John Capps | 2 17. 2011. Pragmatic epistemology, logic, and inquiry. In Sami Pihlström (Ed.), The Continuum Companion to Pragmatism. New York: Continuum. 18. 2008. With David Hildebrand and Kimberly Bilica. Addressing controversies in science education: A pragmatic approach to evolution education. Science and Education 17: 1033-1052. 19. 2008. Introduction. In John Dewey, Human Nature and Conduct (pp. ix-xvi). New York: Barnes and Noble. 20. 2007. Naturalized epistemology. In John Lachs and Robert Talisse (Eds.), American Philosophy: An Encyclopedia (pp. 532-534). New York: Routledge. 21. 2007. Facts. In John Lachs and Robert Talisse (Eds.), American Philosophy: An Encyclopedia (pp. 277-278). New York: Routledge. 22. 2007. Darwin, influence of. In John Lachs and Robert Talisse (Eds.), American Philosophy: An Encyclopedia (pp. 152-159). New York: Routledge. 23. 2006. Jamesian truth. William James Studies 1. Retrieved from http:// williamjamesstudies.org/jamesian-truth-comments-on-charlene-haddock- seigfrieds-william-jamess-radical-reconstruction-of-philosophy/ 24. 2004. Sidney Hook and anti-communism. Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 40: 803-816. 25. 2004. American philosophy & McCarthyism. Philosophy Now 46: 14-17. 26. 2003. Pragmatism and the McCarthy Era. Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 39: 61-76. 27. 2002. Achieving pluralism: Why AIDS activists differ from creationists. In T. Burke, M. Hester, & R. Talisse (Eds.) New Essays on Dewey’s Logical Theory (pp. 239-261). Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press. 28. 2000. Naturalism, pragmatism, and design. Journal of Speculative Philosophy 14: 161-178. 29. 1999. The pragmatism of Frederick L. Will. Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 35: 475-500. 30. 1996. Dewey, Quine, and pragmatic naturalized epistemology. Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 32: 634-667. 31. 1996. Pragmatism, feminism, sameness and difference. Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 32: 65-105. 32. 1995. The bedrock of experience: an assessment of James’ proposals for a critical science of religion. In D. Capps & J. Jacobs (eds.), The Struggle for Life: John Capps | 3 A Companion to William James’ The Varieties of Religious Experience (238-249). West Lafayette, IN: Society for the Scientific Study of Religion Monograph Series. Books 2009. You’ve Got to Be Kidding: How Jokes Can Help You Think. Wiley-Blackwell, with Donald Capps. 2005. James and Dewey on Belief and Experience. University of Illinois Press, edited with Donald Capps. Reviews 1. 2020. Review of Sick Souls, Healthy Minds: How William James Can Save Your Life by John Kaag. Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 56: 110-113. 2. 2020. Review of Neurath Reconsidered: New Sources and Perspectives edited by Jordi Cat and Adam Tamas Tuboly. HOPOS: The Journal of the International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science 10: 353-357. DOI: https:// doi.org/10.1086/707992 3. 2017. Review of Cambridge Pragmatism by Cheryl Misak. Journal for the History of Analytical Philosophy. DOI: https://doi.org/10.15173/ jhap.v5i3.3156 4. 2013. Review of Expressivism, Pragmatism, and Representationalism by Huw Price. Contemporary Pragmatism 10: 193-200 5. 2013. Review of Preludes to Pragmatism by Philip Kitcher. The Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 49: 443-447. 6. 2012. Review of Truth and Skepticism by Robert Almeder. Notre Dame Philosophy Reviews http://ndpr.nd.edu/news/truth-and-skepticism/ 7. 2008. Review of The Dynamic Individualism of William James by James Pawelski. The Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 44: 550-555. 8. 2006. Review of How the Cold War Transformed Philosophy of Science by George Reisch. The Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 42: 167-171 9. 2004. Review of Sidney Hook on Pragmatism, Democracy, and Freedom edited by Robert Talisse and Robert Tempio. The Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 40: 554-557. John Capps | 4 10. 2004. Review of Philosophical Tools for Technological Culture by Larry Hickman. Contemporary Pragmatism 1: 184-187. 11. 2002. Review of Ecological Psychology in Context by Harry Heft. The Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 38: 468-472. 12. 2001. Review of Time in the Ditch: American Philosophy in the McCarthy Era by John McCumber. The Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 37: 677-681. 13. 1999. Review of Pragmatism, Reason, and Norms edited by Kenneth Westphal. Ethics 109: 492. 14. 1998. Review of The Two Pragmatisms by H.O. Mounce. Ethics 108: 837-838. 15. 1998. Review of Structuring the World by Sami Pihlström. The Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy Newsletter. INVITED AND CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS 2020 Pragmatic Accounts of Belief and Truth: A Response to Aaron Zimmerman’s Belief: A Pragmatic Picture. William James Society at the American Philosophical Association, Philadelphia. 2019 The Past and Future of Interdisciplinarity: Neurath and Incentives for Unified Science (with Evelyn Brister). SSHAP, Boston. 2019 Words Divide —Pictures Unite: Otto Neurath, Isotype, and the Unity of Science (with Evelyn Brister, Ethan Adler, and Rebekah Walker). Online exhibit for RIT’s Cary Graphic Arts Collection. https://cary.omeka.net/ exhibits/show/isotype/isotype 2019 Using and Abusing Truth in the Time of Trump. The Uses and Abuses of History in the Trump Era, RIT. 2018 Democracy, Truth, and Understanding: An Epistemic Argument for Democracy. American Section of the International Association for Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy (AMINTAPHIL), Boston. 2018 Campbell’s Experiencing William James: Belief in a Pluralistic World. Author Meets Critics session, SAAP, Indianapolis. 2018 Truth in the Time of Trump. Hale Ethics Series, RIT. 2018 Leveraging Student Discussions in Class (with Wade Robison). Teachers on Teaching Discussion Series, RIT. 2017 Dewey, Truth, and Critical Philosophy. John Dewey and Critical Philosophies for Critical Political Times, University College Dublin. John Capps | 5 2016 Ethical Theory, Ethical Practice: Ethical Frameworks for Real-Life Situations. Oregon Mental Health Consortium, Portland. 2015 Pragmatism, Meaning, and Representation. Summer Institute in American Philosophy, University College Dublin. 2015 The Pragmatic Origins of Ethical Expressivism: Stevenson, Dewey, and the International Encyclopedia of Unified Science. SSHAP, Dublin. 2015 The Partial Eclipse of American Philosophy.